February 2012 archive

The City of Seattle is offering leadership training with a focus on developing young leaders, especially among minority communities. More information is included in the following word document / brochure (pdf). PACE brochure PACE Application Form

Since a few of us 11th LD members are also residents of South Park, here you go: To document construction of the new South Park Bridge, the King County Road Services Division is working with University of Washington professor and historic building documentary photographer John Stamets. The photos can be found here: http://1.usa.gov/ye98ho

The website is back online. I’ve made some slight changes to the layout and I’ll have to recategorize posts that didn’t transfer their posts together. We are now hosted on Dreamhost! http://dreamhost.com/

The website will most-likely be unavailable most of this weekend. I’m going to be transferring over our hosting from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. Expect outages on the website and the @11thlddems.org email addresses will likely have issues too. I’ll send out an all-clear when things are back to normal.

Congrats to Azziem Underwood, the new chair of the 11th Legislative District Democrats. Jerri Wood was elected as our new secretary, and Chris Anderson was elected as our new treasurer. Thank you to Marlene Allbright, Roxanne Kangas, and Martha Koester for your service in these positions! Bill Taylor has also volunteered to be our new …

The updated agenda has been posted here: http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-meeting-february-2011/ Just a reminder, we will be holding elections for the following positions: Chair Vice-Chair Treasurer All other open positions Adam Smith will be speaking to us. The meeting agenda will be determined by the newly elected chair. And… Roxanne and I will be serving up some delicious …

Hey all, please show up to the February general meeting. Roxanne and I are going to be serving up some baked ziti (both vegetarian and meat options). Also, just a reminder, we will be electing a new e-board during that meeting, so please participate. http://11thlddems.org/blog/event/general-meeting-february-2011/

11th District State Representative Bob Hasegawa recently hosted a town hall meeting via telephone, but this Saturday, February 18, Hasegawa is hosting a live and in-person town hall to give constituents an update on the legislative session. The meeting in Tukwila will include discussions on the many issues brought up in Olympia this session, including …

Congratulations are in order for Azziem Underwood who was elected by his fellow state committee men and women in the 8th Congressional District to be their leader!! He ran in a contested race and won handily. Azziem will represent the 8th Congressional on the WSDCC Executive Board. Three cheers for Azziem – I believe this …

On February 2nd, 2012, our chair, Martha Koester, resigned. She has served the district well, but the redistricting means she’s not going to be in the district anymore and it’s time for a re-org. Elections for all e-board positions will be held on February 21st at our general meeting. Until then, our vice-chair, Marvin Rosete, …